First Line Fridays: “The Masterpiece” by Fiona Davis

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Happy Friday everyone!

Phew! 💦 What a week this is! It wasn’t as stressful as last week was (though there were a few ‘incidents’ ) but it was still plenty busy, which is usual because it’s the end of the month (reports, reports and still MORE reports 😓😓😓). Add to that my nephew’s upcoming birthday celebration (he turns 1 & this auntie got him 📚📚📚) and my life is a bit…hectic should do the trick.

I still haven’t caught on my reading, but I did start on a new book last Tuesday (or was that Wednesday???) I’ll be featuring its first line here for FLF today.

 

 

Clara Darden’s illustration class at the Grand Central School of Art, tucked under the copper eaves of the terminal, was unaffected by the trains that rumbled through the ancient layers of Manhattan schist hundreds of feet below. But somehow, a surprise visit by Mr. Lorette, the school’s director, had the disruptive power of a locomotive weighing in at thousands of tons.

 

 

I’ve always heard good things about Fiona Davis’ books, especially The Dollhouse, so I was happy when I won an ARC of this book from First to Read. I’m still only 25% in and so far things are going good. These are some of the stuff I gathered from the first few chapters of The Masterpiece – it follows two women, two different timelines – late 20’s and mid 70’s, there might be a love triangle of sorts, it seems to involve art and certainly has NY’s Grand Central Terminal at its center.

The Masterpiece comes out August 7.

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